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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/la-panthere-et-les-bergers.html">Fable précédente</a></div>
<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Livre 3, Fable 3</span><span class="fp-text">ÉSOPE ET LE PAYSAN</span></div>
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<div class="fp-title"><span class="fp-number">Liber III, Fabula III</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">AESOPUS ET RUSTICUS</span></div>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un homme d'expérience en sait plus long qu'un devin.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">C'est un proverbe ; d'où vient-il&nbsp;? on ne le dit pas.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ma fable, la première, va l'apprendre.</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">1&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Usu peritus hariolo velocior</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">2&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">vulgo causa fertur, sed non dicitur,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">3&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">notescet <span class="fp-correction" title="que  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">quae</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="quae  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">que</span></span> nunc primum fabella mea.</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Un fermier avait des brebis qui lui donnaient</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">des agneaux à tête humaine. Épouvanté d'une monstruosité pareille,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">il court tout affligé consulter les devins.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">L'un répond que la vie du maître est menacée,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et qu'il faut conjurer le péril par une victime.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">L'autre assure au fermier que sa femme lui est infidèle,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et que cela signifie l'illégitimité des enfants ;</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">mais qu'un sacrifice important peut tout expier.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Enfin, tous diffèrent d'opinion</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et ne font qu'aggraver le souci du paysan.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">Ésope, vieillard plein de finesse et de sagacité,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">et que la nature ne put jamais tromper, se trouvait là par hasard&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">«&nbsp;Villageois, lui dit-il, si tu veux taire cesser ce prodige,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text">donne des femmes à tes bergers.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
<td class="fp-right"><span class="fp-paragraph"><span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">4&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Habenti cuidam pecora pepererunt oves</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">5&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">agnos humano capite. Monstro perterritus</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">6&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">ad <span class="fp-correction" title="consolendos  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">consulendos</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="consulendos  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">consolendos</span></span> currit <span class="fp-correction" title="merens  (orig. avec var. orth.)"><span class="fp-difference">maerens</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="maerens  (var. orth. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">merens</span></span> hariolus.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">7&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Hic pertinere ad domini <span class="fp-correction" title="respondit  (orig. avec f. de gram.)"><span class="fp-difference">respondet</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="respondet  (f. de gram. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">respondit</span></span> caput</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">8&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et avertendum victima periculum.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">9&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Ille autem adfirmat conjugem esse adulteram</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">10&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">et insitivos significari <span class="fp-manuscript" title="Afficher le manuscrit (édition paléographique)"
>[<a target="fppithoeanus" href="http://www.archive.org/stream/lesfablesdephdr00robegoog#page/n96/mode/1up">p.33</a>]</span> liberos,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">11&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">sed expiari posse majore hostia.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">12&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Quid multa&nbsp;? Variis dissident sententiis</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">13&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">hominisque curam cura majore adgravant.</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">14&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">Aesopus <span class="fp-correction" title="sibi  (orig. avec f. de voca.)"><span class="fp-difference">ibi</span></span><span class="fp-original" title="ibi  (f. de voca. corr.)"><span class="fp-difference">sibi</span></span> stans, naris emunctae senex,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">15&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">natura numquam verba cui potuit dare&nbsp;:</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">16&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">«&nbsp;Si procurare vis ostentum, rustice,</span></span> <span class="fp-line"><span class="fp-number">17&nbsp;</span><span class="fp-text notranslate">uxores, inquit, da tuis pastoribus.&nbsp;»</span></span></span></td>
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<td class="fp-left"><div class="fp-chapter"><a href="/2011/09/la-panthere-et-les-bergers.html">Fable précédente</a></div></td>
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<div class="fp-translator">Traduit par M. E. Panckoucke, 1864</div>

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